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LEROUX, Gaston. The Phantom of the Opera.London : 1911
First UK edition, first printing, in English of this mystery thriller which formed the basis for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical and several film adaptations. In his day Leroux was considered "the foremost of the modern French writers of detective fiction." Learn More£3,750.00Stock Code: 93931
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LAWRENCE, D. H. Women In Love.New York, [but issued in London : 1920
First edition, UK issue, being one of 50 numbered copies signed by the author. Martin Secker bought 50 sets of sheets from the 1,250 copies printed for the true first American edition, and bound them very much in the Secker style, though the publisher's name does not appear anywhere in the book. This is the first signed limited issue, as the US copies... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 124407
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LEWIS, Sinclair. Main Street.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 122949
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LOVELACE, Delos Wheeler; Edgar Wallace & Merian C. Cooper. King Kong.New York : 1932
First edition in book form. The novelization was serialized in Mystery Magazine the same year and published in book form slightly before the film was released. Lovelace was a former newspaper reporter, author of several books, including biographies of football coach Knute Rockne and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The original concept was Merian C. Cooper's,... Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 40361
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LAWRENCE, D. H. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories.London : 1914
First edition, first impression, in a stunning example of the rare dust jacket. Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 95594
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LONDON, Jack. The Call of the Wild.New York : 1903
First edition of this classic of childhood literature, set in the Klondike Gold Rush and inspired by Egerton Ryerson Young's book My Dogs in the Northland, published the previous year. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 135747
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LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.London : 1960
First UK edition, first impression. First published in the US earlier the same year, To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is "an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of... Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 132534
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LEWIS, C. S. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe.London : 1950
First edition, first impression. Learn More£2,500.00Stock Code: 132390
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LAWRENCE, D. H. The Virgin and the Gypsy.Florence : 1930
Limited edition, number 750 of 810 copies printed on handmade paper. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 43264
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LOFTING, Hugh. The Story of Doctor Dolittle.New York : 1920
First edition, first printing, of the first title in the Doctor Dolittle series. Though born in England, Lofting settled in Connecticut and had his first book published in New York. The book is attractively illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings. Learn More£1,500.00Stock Code: 127454
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LEE, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird.Philadelphia : 1960
First edition, first printing. To Kill a Mockingbird became an immediate bestseller and won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It is "an authentic and nostalgic story which in rare fashion at once puts together the tenderness and the tragedy of the South. They are the inseparable ingredients of a region much reported but seldom so well understood"... Learn More£6,750.00Stock Code: 121366
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LEWIS, C. S. The Silver Chair.London : 1953
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 86668
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LAWRENCE, T. E. Seven Pillars of Wisdom. A Triumph.London : 1935
First trade edition, first impression, published by Cape immediately following Lawrence's death. It is O'Brien's so-called "Third English Edition," following the Oxford Times edition of 1922 (of which there were eight copies), and the 1926 Cranwell edition (limited to 211 copies, 170 only designated complete). Learn More£1,575.00Stock Code: 130998
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(LAWRENCE, T. E.) DOUGHTY, Charles M. Travels in Arabia Deserta.London : 1936
New and definitive edition, first impression. First published in 1886, this reissue with a new preface by Doughty and an introduction by T. E. Lawrence found a new generation of readers for this classic of travel. This "definitive" edition of 1936 was published in a format matching that of the 1935 Seven Pillars of Wisdom. Learn More£2,250.00Stock Code: 121339
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LOWTHER, George. The Adventures of Superman.New York : 1942
First edition, first printing. This book is the first novelization of a comic book character, and also the first Superman story credited to someone other than Jerry Siegel. It was Lowther who first provided many now-familiar details of Superman's birth and early life. Learn More£2,750.00Stock Code: 134335
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LEWIS, C. S. The Last BattleLondon : 1956
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 32958
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[LAW, John.] Money and Trade considered.Edinburgh : 1705
First edition of the major work of the famous Scottish financial adventurer John Law (1671-1729), which presents his theories on the establishment of paper note-issuing national banks. The title exists in two states: one with an ornament of an eagle and vines, the present with a coastline and its reflection. Textually they are all the same. Of the few... Learn More£45,000.00Stock Code: 117696
